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PRELUDE STORY WORSHIP HOME

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GROUPS25 MINUTES

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Dude, Where’s My Son? Lost Son

Luke 15:11-24

I can trust God no matter what.

Forgiveness—deciding that someone who has wronged you

doesn’t have to pay.

“Put up with one another. Forgive one another if you are holding something against someone. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13, NIrV

Everyone needs to be forgiven, even me.

PRELUDE: Setting the tone for the experienceFor Leaders OnlyCreate the Environment

SOCIAL: Providing time for fun interactionIdeas for Early ArriversLost List

STORY: Communicating God’s truth in engaging waysOpenerWorshipBible StoryPrayerCloser

WORSHIP: Inviting people to respond to God“Happy Day” from Live It Out“Let Revolution Start” from Living Inside Out

GROUPS: Creating a safe place to connectRunning HomeForgiveness ToolsBible Build UpPrayer

HOME: Prompting action beyond the experienceGodTimeParent Cue


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PRELUDE STORY WORSHIP HOMESOCIAL15 MINUTES

GROUPS25 MINUTES

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GETTING READY

SOCIAL: PROVIDING TIME FOR FUN INTERACTION (Choose one or both of these activities.)

Early Arriver• An offering container

Lost List• Items that you can hide around the room• A list of those items you have hidden• Before kids arrive, hide the items around the room. Note: You could also use I Spy or Where’s Waldo books if you don’t have a space to hide things.

GROUPS: CREATING A SAFE PLACE TO CONNECT (Choose as many of these activities as you like.)

* If you don’t have time to do all these activities, be sure to do activity #2.

1. Running Home (application activity / review the Bible story)• 4 pieces of paper• Inflatable bat and ball (for example: http://bit.ly/2hjLctG)• 3 white balloons

* 2. Forgiveness Tools (application activity)• Print the “Forgiveness Tools” Activity Page; 1 for each kid• Glue sticks• Crayons• Scissors• Kids’ toolboxes from last week• Provide extra supplies from last week (prepared cereal box, paper towel tube,

decorating items, “Forgiveness Label” stickers) for any kids who were absent last week.

3. Bible Build Up (memory verse activity)• Jumbo popsicle sticks; 1 for each word of the memory verse AND 1 for

each kid o Write one word of the memory verse on each stick o Leave the kids’ sticks blank


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PRELUDE STORY WORSHIP HOME

B I B L E S T O R Y

B O T T O M L I N E

M E M O R Y V E R S E

L I F E A P P

B A S I C T R U T H

Dude, Where’s My Son? Lost Son

Luke 15:11-24

I can trust God no matter what.

Forgiveness—deciding that someone who has wronged you

doesn’t have to pay.

“Put up with one another. Forgive one another if you are holding something against someone. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:13, NIrV

Everyone needs to be forgiven, even me.

SOCIAL15 MINUTES

GROUPS25 MINUTES



• 1 piece of construction paper• Glue stick• Markers

Prayer• Index cards; 1 for each kid• Markers

Additional Resources:• Make copies on cardstock or email this week’s GodTime and Parent Cue cards. • Tell parents about our additional family resources: Studio252.tv, CUE Box, and the Parent Cue app. To find out more

about these great resources, go to http://www.Studio252.tv/leaders.


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PRELUDE STORY WORSHIP HOMESOCIAL15 MINUTES

GROUPS25 MINUTES



SOCIAL: PROVIDING TIME FOR FUN INTERACTION Welcome kids and spend time engaging in conversation and catching up. Get ready to experience today’s story.

Before kids arrive, pray for each regular attendee by name. Pray for those who might visit your group for the first time. Ask God to help each of you see where you could ask for forgiveness and that you would have the courage to do so.

1. EARLY ARRIVER IDEAWHAT YOU NEED: Offering container

WHAT YOU DO:• Collect kids’ offerings as they arrive.• Ask kids to tell you about their homes: o What does your house look like? o Who lives at your house? o Do you have any pets? o What’s your favorite part about their home? o What’s your least favorite part? o What do you like to do at home? o Would you rather stay at home or go somewhere else?

2. LOST LISTWHAT YOU NEED: Hidden items, list of those items

WHAT YOU DO:• Tell kids there are a bunch of random things hidden around the room.• Read a couple items off the list to and let kids look for those items.• Check off the found items as you go, making sure the game isn’t dominated by just a few kids finding all the items.

WHAT YOU SAY:“Sometimes it’s frustrating trying to find things that are lost, like when you’re late for school and can’t find you coat. But sometimes it’s fun, like when we play these games. [Transition] Today in Large Group, we are going to hear about someone who loved to find what he lost.”

Lead your group to the Large Group area.


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PRELUDE STORY WORSHIP GROUPS HOMESOCIAL15 MINUTES



GROUPS: CREATING A SAFE PLACE TO CONNECT Create a safe place to connect and learn how the Bible story applies to real life experiences, through interactive activities and discussion questions.

1. RUNNING HOME (application activity / review the Bible story) WHAT YOU NEED: 4 pieces of paper, inflatable bat and ball, 3 white balloons

WHAT YOU DO:• Set up the pieces of paper in a diamond shape, like baseball bases.• Ask if anyone has ever played baseball or softball. Tell kids that today they get to play a game that is similar, but this time

they’re on God’s forgiveness team, so there are some special rules: there are no “outs”! • Kids will take turns hitting the ball and running the bases.• While one kid is running, the other kids can use the white balloons to try to tag the runner, but even if he gets tagged, he

still gets to run to home plate.• Play until everyone in the group has had a turn to bat.

Adaptation: If you have a lot of kids in the room and have access to an empty space outside of the room, take a group or two at a time and let them play this game in that space. If that is not possible, make sure the entire room plays the game at the same time. (You might want to do this activity at the end of Groups time.) Put 2 groups together and let them play together, so that you can make the best use of your space.

WHAT YOU SAY:“The lost son in our story today made some bad choices. When you make the wrong choice, it’s like getting ‘out’ in baseball, just like your friends were trying to get you out with balloons. But on God’s team, we can always be safe from getting out. No matter what happens, you can always run back home because God always forgives all of us! [Make It Personal] (Tell your group about a time when you made the wrong choice, but God forgave you.) [Bottom Line] Everyone needs to be forgiven, even me.”

* 2. FORGIVENESS TOOLS (application activity)WHAT YOU NEED: “Forgiveness Tools” Activity Pages, glue sticks, crayons, scissors, kids’ toolboxes from last week, extra supplies for kids who were absent

WHAT YOU DO:• Give each kid an Activity Page.• As you read the scenarios below, instruct kids to draw a line on the hammer’s handle, to connect the appropriate pictures.• Provide help and hints as needed, going slowly to make sure you don’t lose any kids.• After you’ve gone through the scenarios and kids have connected the pictures, allow them to color their hammers.• Then help kids cut out the hammer’s head and handle and glue them together.

Forgiveness scenarios: • I dropped my mom’s phone on accident when I borrowed it to play a game and it broke.


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PRELUDE SOCIAL STORY WORSHIP HOMEGROUPS25 MINUTES



• I borrowed my friend’s bike and forgot to give it back and it was left out in the rain. • I ate my little brother’s candy when he wasn’t looking. • I played for hours in my room even though my dad had asked me to go to sleep. • I went outside to play when I was supposed to be keeping an eye on my little sister.

WHAT YOU SAY:“We don’t just need tools to forgive others. We need to be forgiven too! Forgiveness doesn’t just include one or the other. Could you imagine how unhelpful this hammer would be without the handle? Forgiveness is the same way. We need the right tools to forgive others and the right tools for others to forgive us because [Bottom Line] everyone needs to be forgiven, even me. Let’s put our hammers in our toolboxes to remind us to ask for forgiveness whenever we do something wrong.” Optional: If the kids have their Forgiveness Toolboxes at home, tell them to stick the hammer in the toolbox when they get home.

3. BIBLE BUILD UP (memory verse activity)WHAT YOU NEED: Popsicle sticks, 1 piece of construction paper, glue stick, markers

WHAT YOU DO:• Read this month’s verse from the Bible (Colossians 3:13).• Set out the Popsicle sticks with the verse written on them and provide help as needed while kids put the sticks in verse

order. • Give the group the construction paper and let them build a house shape (or two) out of the Popsicle sticks and glue them

to the paper.• Then give each kid a Popsicle stick. Write “Colossians 3:13” on a stick or a piece of scrap paper and let kids copy the

verse reference onto their own stick.• Let kids put their Popsicle stick in their toolboxes.

WHAT YOU SAY:“Last week we talked about how my favorite tool is the Bible. There is nothing that builds me up more than God’s Word. When you read and memorize His words, it builds your heart up. It takes a strong heart to ask for forgiveness and we know that [Bottom Line] everyone needs to be forgiven, even me.”

PRAY AND DISMISSWHAT YOU NEED: Index cards, markers

WHAT YOU DO: • Hand each kid an index card and put the markers out where everyone can reach them.• As a group, brainstorm some things that kids their age might need forgiveness for (disobeying a parent or teacher, not

being nice to a friend, being annoying to a sibling on purpose, yelling and screaming when they don’t get their way).• Ask kids to draw a picture of what they might need forgiveness for.• After they’re finished drawing, gather the group together and pray with them. (This is a great time to give a volunteer


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or two the opportunity to pray out loud. The cards the kids drew on are great “prayer starters” and can help kids think concretely about what to pray for.)

WHAT YOU SAY:“Last week we asked God to help us forgive others. But our story today got me thinking that we couldprobably use some forgiveness too. Let’s pray not only for God to forgive us, but that He wouldhelp us know what we need to ask forgiveness for because [Bottom Line] everyone needs to be forgiven, even me.”

As adults arrive to pick up, tell parents that your group played an awesome game of baseball today. Ask kids to tell their adults what was different about your version of baseball and why they could still run home even if they got tagged out.


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